Which macros suit what tasks?

[Aaron W. Hsu]

I have been wondering what tasks are best suited to what macro package.
In many ways, the features of each macro package appear to overlap. I do
not know whether this means they can readily be interchanged, or if
their subtle differences lend them more to one form of tasks than
another. From reading the documentation it seems that the macro
packages, excepting man and mandoc have the following general goals:

MM - Short Memorandums, letters, and other notices.
MS - Longer, structured documents of a less formal nature.
ME - Substantially structured, featureful papers or theses
geared towards lots of different elements and sections of
the paper.

Does anyone have more information about the history, use, and the
relative advantages and disadvantages of each of the macro packages in
use today on a Groff or other system? Of course, man and mandoc are
fairly simple to figure out use-wise, since they are very specific.
The others do not reveal their inner-most thoughts so readily.

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